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I had to make 88 rivets for my refinery and I was not about to cut them all by hand, so ... remembering a remark from another forum member (possibly on Dakka Dakka), I went out and bought a leather punch, found an old Starbucks gift card, and wrote everything up.

Making Rivets

Great tool, and the best part is that you can make different size rivets! Which reminds me, back to work on my battlewagon

Also kids, don't forget you can use For Sale signs, or even that plastic container your strawberries came in. The soda top for your Super Size McChemical meal! Really, just about anything.

Dez wrote:Also kids, don't forget you can use For Sale signs, or even that plastic container your strawberries came in. The soda top for your Super Size McChemical meal! Really, just about anything.

Exactly! Why run off to buy plastic when youve got tons of it in the trash? My wife thinks Im crazy collecting all our old icecream boxes etc. She calls me trash collector...

One thing Ive found punching out small rivets (the smallest on the punch thingie) is that if you punch a thicker plastic then its real hard getting the rivets out. I just kept punching til they came out the back when the puncher was full. Just keep punching...

That's why I made the little extractor. I had a hard time of punching enough for them to come out the back.